Beach Spring Clean March 2011

OCEAN INITIATIVES 2011 EUROPEAN WIDE CLEANUP. A lovely group of Green Drinks people joined That's Rubbish and Surfrider Malta. This collaboration yielded 21 recycle bags and 16 rubbish bags of waste and that was strewn all over the cliffs overlooking Għajn Tuffieħa and the beach. Well done to all for using action instead of just words!

Calling all you caring people out there to help us welcome spring!

Keep Sunday the 27th March free!!

drop us a note on info@greendrinksmalta.org if you're joining - it makes us fuzzy to feel the support

To commemorate Spring, THAT'S RUBBISH/SURFMALTA will be hosting an event in collaboration with Surfrider Foundation Europe's, Ocean Initiative's European Wide Cleanup on Sunday March 27th. Green Drinks Malta will be joining our forces, strength lies in numbers.

'Ocean Initiatives is a great eco-citi...zen weekend of global scale, dealing with the problem of marine litter and dedicated to the protection of our coast, our lakes and our rivers. Last year, 40,000 people participated in the event.' Surfrider

Follow the Flow down to the sea and unite in representing MALTA in Surfriders OCEANS INITIATIVE 2011...YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!!

We Will Welcome You With Open Bags and Rubber Gloves ;0)

*When: Sunday March 27 @ 12-3pm
*Where: Ghajn Tuffieha(down on the beach, on the concrete
bit below the Kiosk/location subject to change)
**FREE Yoga Session for beachcombers @ 4pm

**For those willing to brave the sea come equipped with
wetsuits, snorkels and masks in hand to cleanse the bay

DARE 2 CARE ♥

Beach Clean-Up

Next clean up set for the beginning of spring - Sunday, 21st March!

Where: Ghajn Tuffieha (meet down on the beach)

When: 14:00 - 17:00

After: If the weather permits we can have a sunset Yoga session for anyone who'd like to unwind and then head off to play some pool!

If anyone is willing and able to publicise this event for us by posting this info at their school, office or local shops that would be a great help... camera people of all sorts are welcome to come give us a shoot too!

*Rubbish bags and gloves will be provided*

Hope to see you there! :)

For confirmation and information contact Michelle Bartolo: info@thatsrubbishmalta.com

Clean Up & Picnic - Green Drinks November Gathering

Dear friends

We are invited by Heritage Parks Federation, currently the managers of Il-Majjistral Nature and History Park (Mellieha) to take part in the clean-up of the area on Saturday 12th December from 10am till 1pm. We are meeting near Manikata Church.

Other volunteers form different NGO's will also be attending the event. As part of the event, 150 olive trees will be planted in an area which was formerly used as a land fill. Tree planting will be for free for those persons helping in the clean up, yet any donations will be appreciated and a name tag would be then affixed to the tree in the name of the person.

Gloves, garbage bags and wheel barrows will be provided but if you have some gloves please bring them.

If weather permits, we will have a picnic Green Drinks style after the clean up:)

Invite your family and friends!! If you are interested in joining us, send an email to info@greendrinksmalta.org.


kind regards

Natalie
obo Green Drinks Malta

The Spirit of the Hands on Approach

The below shows how individual ppl can make a difference in the world around them.If you have more stories please send them to us :)

Read more at Treehugger

"Three to four tonnes of free papers are dumped in this city every day. Only a small amount is ever recycled. They have become a real blight. One group last year collected all of the papers left behind in just one day. They collected 1,500 and dumped them in Trafalgar Square as a symbol before they were sent off to be recycled. Another group collected thousands and made a newspaper house out of them as a form of awareness raising.

The experience has empowered its creator, Claire Wilson. She says "Starting Choose What You Read has changed my outlook. I've realised it's possible to do something about things that bother you. After the first hand-out we were practically high on feeling we'd changed the world. But even though we might not have done that, if we've just got 20 people to change their minds about taking the free papers, that's already a great thing to have done."

Thursday 28th March

BEACH CLEAN-UP ORGANISED BY GAIA FOUNDATION

SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2009 | 10 AM | Ghajn Tuffieha Bay

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Project Gaia is based upon integrated coastal zone management in the Maltese islands. We are a non profit, non government organisation set up in June 1994 to specialise in this field of environment management. Gaia is part of the Global Ecovillage Network, member of the Worldwatch Institute, and part of the Gaia Movement world wide.

Since we are a hands on project implementation group we do not have resources for campaigns. However we do support other local campaigns, especially those that involve issues that may have an impact on our coastal zone and disseminate information provided by the Worldwatch Institute.

We are currently managing two areas of ecological importance that fall within the proposed sites for the European Natura 2000 Network; under agreement with the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) and the Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment (MRAE)

What is the HANDS-ON initiative?

The HANDS-ON initiative is a space where people can offer their help to other volunteer groups.
From time to time individuals organise activities such as clean-ups , training camps, organic farming etc. and without help from volunteers these would not be possible.
We will be offering a space for people to offer their help. The help can be time or manual labour but also could be in the form of a particular resource or expertise.
For this we have set up a Facebook group ( look up "Green Drinks Malta: HANDS-ON") and this blog is a continuation of the project.
So it's time for some action .
Together through passion and action we believe that people can transform their communities thus creating the positive change we wish to see in the world.